> Are you saying the IPad is a worthless piece of junk, or are you speaking
> generally about some manufactured goods?
I am specifically referring to the iPad.
- As a personal entertainment device it is great.
- As a reference material lookup device it is great
- As a communications device, it is OK
- When loaded with specific apps that address your needs, it is pretty good
- As a productivity tool, it is pretty aweful
- As a content creation tool, it is downright miserable
- Multitasking? Yeah right.
- Interfaceability with other devices and storage medium? Zilch.
Don't ask me to give up my iPad because for what it does well, it does
very well. But what it fails to do well makes your life miserable.
Without any joking, it literally takes about $100 USD in apps just to
make the iPad usable for moderate business use. Want to print
something? That's a paid app. Want to actually save PDF files? Paid
app. The list goes on and on.
As was previously mentioned, the image-management aspect of the iPad
is so horrid as to be unusable. How about basic file storage,
retrieval and transfer? The standard method for transferring a file to
the iPad is to email it to yourself from your computer, open up a
web-based mail client in ReaddleDocs (paid app), and save it to the
ReadleDocs file system. Granted, if you are able to place both
computers into the same WiFi LAN, you can do a web-drive app (paid)
which allows you to FTP or brouse files in and out of the iPad.
Sometimes. Unless the WiFi network is busy then it doesn't work.
Or my favorite: Most apps would be considered "thin client" programs
and gain their functionality though "phoning home" and getting the
data online. Lose your WiFi connection to the Internet? Most apps of
any usability are toast.
AG
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